heh, why is fiat winning? people are zombies following a hunger for paper money.

I tell you why fiat is winning: It's still in the heads. It's indoctrination, we're brought up this way. When you constantly put value on everything using FIAT to compare, at some point, you just internalize Value == FIAT.

This. The poll asked for intuitively, and intuitively I see the value in a 50 euro bill. (I expect this to be less for americans though)When thinking about it, there's actually only about 15 BTC there, which is about 30 euro. So yeah, BTC is still worth less.The silver thingeys (Canadian?) I have no idea about.

This. The poll asked for intuitively, and intuitively I see the value in a 50 euro bill. (I expect this to be less for americans though)When thinking about it, there's actually only about 15 BTC there, which is about 30 euro. So yeah, BTC is still worth less.The silver thingeys (Canadian?) I have no idea about.

This. The poll asked for intuitively, and intuitively I see the value in a 50 euro bill. (I expect this to be less for americans though)When thinking about it, there's actually only about 15 BTC there, which is about 30 euro. So yeah, BTC is still worth less.The silver thingeys (Canadian?) I have no idea about.

Not many prefer the extra weight and "jingliness" of coins over an effectively weightless piece of paper.

The investor in me wants to hold all three with a bias toward silver (2) and Bitcoin (1) a close second. Most of the people I know would gravitate toward the fiat paper bill (3) with its clearly visible denomination of 50.

I tried to make all options "worth" about the same using todays prices. because I was trying to find out, what people expect to be most sucessfull in terms of actually keeping it's value in the furue.

it's 17 BTC, 2 oz silver (maple leaf) and 50 EUR

You do know that 50 euro is actually 70 dollar, right?Anyway, Europeans have actually had a currency change in 2002. For me, the Euro was worth more than the old currency, i.e. everything looked cheap. This takes a while to get used to, but eventually you get an intuition for the buying power of the new coin. The "looks" don't really matter, I think, just the familiarity with the worth, which grows after a while.